From December 11 to 13th, 2014, Jia Qingguo, Dean of School of International Studies led a delegation consisting of Professor Wang Zhangyi, Professor Cha Daojiong and Professor Zhang Qingmin from School of International Studies, Peking University, and Professor Zhu Feng, Executive Director of Collaborative Innovation Center of South China Sea Studies of Nanjing University to participate in the sixth international workshop jointly organized by schools of international studies of Princeton University, Peking University, Seoul University, National University of Singapore and University of Tokyo.
The theme of the conference was “East Asia Security Conflict and Cooperation Conference”. During the two-day conference, professors from the five schools engaged in heated and profound discussions around the following five topics: (1) the overall security relationship situation in East Asia. What are the challenges faced by the regional order in East Asia? Can China and the US, China and Japan, Japan and South Korea, Northeast Asia and Southeast Asia control and manage the power shifts in the region? For scholars and policy analysts, what is the most important and urgent problem in this region we should study? (2) The rise of China, territorial/maritime disputes and regional security competition. What is China’s grand strategy? What are the reactions of other countries in East Asia to China’s rise? How to understand the territorial and maritime competitions in Northeast Asia and Southeast Asia? What can we learn from the history and theory of regional and global power shifts and the driving force of rising powers? (3) History, memory and continuous regional conflicts. What is the origin of the historical debate of Japan? Can the neighboring countries put down the memory of and hatred toward Japan? What can Japan do to diminish such a historical burden? What kind of policies could solve such historical disputes? Do these historical disputes really affect other regions’ disputes? (4) Economic and regional order. Does the increasingly integrated economy in this region pose impacts on its political relations? How do economic cooperation initiatives such as TPP and other trade agreements affect the regional order? How are security order and economic order related? Should economy go before security or vice versa? (5) Prevent regional conflict in East Asia from escalating: weapon control, security cooperation and great power limits.
The participating experts engaged in heated and profound discussions around topics such as China-Japan relations, South Korea-North Korea relations, and US policies in East Asia.
At the final sitting, Dean Jia Qingguo expressed his gratitude to Wilson College of Princeton University for its efforts in making this seminar successful. On behalf of the School of International Studies, Peking University expressed the willingness to undertake the next five-school conference.
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